Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management.

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Paul G. Silva

JULY 11, 2018

Due diligence (AKA “doing your homework” on a startup to see if investing is the right call) should clearly take time… but how much? Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association (the trade association for angel investors in the US) wrote an article on this topic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Short term, it might be more difficult to raise at valuations we have seen before the public market adjustment, but with a strong business model and an experienced management team that understands the market and growth KPIs, it is possible,” she said. This leaves us with questions: What seals the fate of private insurtech startups these days?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Stable , an insurtech aiming to help minimize a businesses’ risk due to volatile commodity prices, today announced it has raised $46.5 His goal with Stable is to help “millions of businesses that are exposed to volatile commodity prices to manage the risk in a simple and effective way.”.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Abdulla Abdul Aziz AlShamsi, Acting Director General of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, said at the signing ceremony to mark a $60M investment in OurCrowd’s new artificial intelligence company during Abu Dhabi Finance Week in the UAE capital. “In Startup of the Week NetOp keeps enterprise networks running. Learn More. Top Tech News.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Y Combinator has funded well over 100 climate tech startups , and together they are worth over $10B. These startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere. By doing this at speed and scale, we have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. short haul aviation and shipping).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

The basic tenets presented in Ron’s story will resonate with anyone who’s launched a startup. Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. At TechCrunch Early Stage, she spoke about how to ensure the critical early hires are the right ones to grow a business. Rami Essaid, CEO and founder, Finmark.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of the 30 Asia-based founders, all were natives of the country in which they built their businesses: 23 Chinese, three Japanese, two Korean and two Indian. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

New businesses often find it challenging to get financing. Many lenders prefer to lend to businesses that are at least a year or two old and that have strong financial profiles. But if you wait until your business is a couple of years old, you may find yourself missing a key piece of your credit profile: good business credit.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of the 30 Asia-based founders, all were natives of the country in which they built their businesses: 23 Chinese, three Japanese, two Korean and two Indian. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

“We appreciate your loyalty to sticking with us through these times.” Butler’s downfall is a cautionary tale both of the opportunities and challenges that exist in the world of on-demand startups. New York-based Butler was founded in 2016 as a “ghost kitchen” operator with a simple business model.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

. “Founder trouble” is a leading cause of startup death (though data also show that companies with only one founder are more likely to fail , so the conclusion is just that startups are just always likely to fail!). With a small business, the materiality threshold is near $0. A team of one is brittle, but fast.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started. That was the start of the Month of Scale. I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. You’re a small fish. They wanted advice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Now, a startup that’s built a platform to help provide financing specifically to businesses working within that supply chain is announcing some financing of its own. “Accenture estimates that the demand for finance in this business segment is $3.6 trillion and will grow to $6.1

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

But the story started more than 6 months ago. And the narrative may tell you something about your own journey one day. We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

from Columbia Business School so that he could work in the field. I told myself, ‘I’ll go to colleges and pro sports teams and teach finance and investing 101,’ ”Haddix recalls. “In In doing that, we kept getting asked, ‘Now where do I get started? For larger accounts – greater than $1,000 – the startup takes 1% of AUM.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. In addition to the usual story roundup, I’ve asked a small cross section of investors a simple question with a complex answer: How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups? Curation is also an important part of the job.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Do you want The Interchange in your inbox every Sunday? Do you want The Interchange in your inbox every Sunday?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

startups raked last year. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa. In 2021, 11 such startups achieved that feat, a record year for this group.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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